There is more to web design than developing animated or flash heavy “cool” web sites. Good web designers are not looking to slap their own agenda on their customers’ web sites. Good web designers do pretty much everything well but the one thing they do exceptionally well is to listen to their clients. After all, it is their money that is funding the work so it is just common sense to deliver a product that meets their expectations and future goals.

In this article, I am going to talk about some very minute details that are often overlooked but they have far reaching impact on the final outcome.

Working With Web Colors:
You may have noticed that a web page sometime changes colors when viewed on different machines. Why does this happen? It’s because different platforms use different color palettes. Both Macs and PCs have 256 colors in their system palettes, but only 216 of them are the exactly the same colors. In the past, most people did think much about Mac browsers since majority of browsers and machines were Windows based. However, in today’s world, you can’t afford to ignore any segment of your market no matter how small it maybe.

The 216 web colors are in the form of 00 33 66 99 CC FF.

The numbers that are put together like the example above are called “Hexadecimal Colors” (Hexa=6). You cannot select these numbers from your system palette, but you can specify RGB value in your system palette. RGB stands for Red, Green, and Blue (Primary colors). These numbers are used to convert RGB values to Hexadecimal values.

Remember not every color is going to look bad when browser forces it. Most of them will still be close to what you originally designed but some of them will look outright ugly. As a good designer these things should always be at the back of your mind when working with web colors.